Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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